Pasting mechanism for wrapping and labeling machines.



No. 735,405. PATENTED AUG. 4, 190a.

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- PASTING MECHANISM FOR WRAPPING AND LABELING MACHINES.

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PASTING MECHANISM FOR WRAPPING AN-D LABELING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 15. 1902.

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No- 735,405. PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903. G. OWENS.

PASTING MECHANISM FOR WRAPPING AND LABELING MACHINES.

- APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 15. 1902.

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PASTING MECHANISM FOR WRAPPING AND LABELING MACHINES.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 15. 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Patented August 4, 1903.

CHARLES OWENS, OF GHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DWIGHT PRESTON MONTAGUE, OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.

PASTING MECHANISM FOR WRAPPING AND LABELING MACHINES.

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Application filed March 15, 1902. Serial No- 98.374. (No modeld To. all whom, it concern:

vented certain newand useful Improvements in Pasting Mechanism for Wrapping and La beling Machines, of whichthefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to pasting mechanism for magazinewrapping and labeling machines.

Part of the invention is an. improvement upon pasting mechanism for magazine wrappingor folding machines such,forinstance, as that disclosed in application for Letters Patent of the United States filed by me December 6, 190l,Serial No. 84,951.

In the present construction I utilize acon-, stantly-rotating part and employ a carrier; adapted to rotate when it is thrown into connection with the constantly-rotating part, said connection being effected automatically at the time and as a consequence of .the feeding to the carrier of the magazine or other wrapped article which is to be pasted.

My present invention embodies the same general idea as is disclosed in the pasting mechanism of the application referred to, and the features of differences over saidformer. construction will be referredto in the follow-' ing specification and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Another part of my invention relates to means for severing labels from aweb and applying them one by one to the wrapped magazines.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the pasting mechanism, the

left-hand portion of the figure being broken.

away to show the parts in rear of the outside framework and the folding, pasting, and delivery rolls being indicated diagrammatically.

Fig. 2 is a view of the carrier and some of the rollers looking from the right of Fig. 1.

is a plan view of the label -pasting mechanism. Figs. 6, 7, and 8 are views of detail ings in the said heads.

, y p parts of Fig. 5. Fig. 9 is a View of the label- Beit known that 1, CHARLES OWENS, a citizen of the United-States, residing at Chattanooga, Hamilton county, Tennessee, have in-.

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In the drawings I have indicated thefeeding-rolls at 8 9 and the folding and wrapping pose of taking the wrapped magazine or other article as it leaves the folding-rollers 20 and 28 and carry it to thepaste-rollf68, where paste is applied, and to then carry it to the s delivery-rolls for the discharge of the magazine with its wrapper properly folded and pasted. V The carrying means in my present construction comprises a rotary drum or, frame carrying a plurality of holding devices for the magazines or other articles, said devices being disposed at difierent points about the circumference of the said drum. The drum comprises heads or end frames 3 and 4:, preferablyin the form of Wheels havingspokes and loosely mounted by their hubs 3 4: upon a central shaft 5, these heads or end frames carrying mounted therein a number of shaft-s 6, which are adapted to turn in'their bear- Each of these shafts carries holding means for the magazines, consisting, preferably, of two pairs of fingersa and 0, held by a block b, fixed to the shaft '6. Fingers c are adapted to yield, and, as shown in Fig. 1, when the carrier is at rest one pair of fingers will be opposite the bite of the rollers 20 and 28 to receive the magazines therefrom, and when the magazine is thrust into place between the fingers it will be securely held by the spring-pressure from the fingers c. The carrier is intended to rotate step by step, and for this purpose I pivot on the outer side of the endframe or head 3 a series of pawls 7, and for simplicity of construction I utilize. the extended endsof shafts 5 6 for the pivots of said pawls. In the same vertical plane with the pawls I fix upon the constantly rotating shaft 5 a ratchet or notched wheel 10. Outside of this ratchet or notched wheel and outside also of the verti- I00 cal plane of the pawls a frame 9 is located, this being fixed in relation to the movable pawls and the rotary ratchet or notched driving-wheel. This fixed frame has a camway therein comprising a groove 9, formed on its inner side and extending concentrically of the center of rotation of the carrier, and a low part 9" of this catnway is formed by cutting away the frame, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, between the points a: and y. The pawls 7 have pins 7, adapted to engage the camway, and thus control the position of the pawls in relation to the toothed driving-wheel. The position of the pawls is also controlled by a switch-lever 2, pivoted at 2' to the fixed frame 9 and having at one end a lug 13, adapted when the switch-lever is in the position shown in Fig. 1 to form practically a continuation of the supporting-surface of the oamway 9 to hold the pin with its pawl up. At the other end of this switch or controlling lever a cut-off lug or projection 14 is provided adapted when the switch is in the normal position shown in Fig. 1 'to lie across the pm of the adjacent pawl.

camway 9 and form a stop for the pin on the pawl,and thus limit or arrest the rotary movement of the carrier. The toothed wheel 10 has recesses 10 ,into which the projections 7 of the pawls fall to connect with the said wheel. Supposing the parts to be in the position shown in Fig. 1 and the toothed wheel 10 in constant rotary movement, it will be seen that all the pawls will be out of engagement with the toothed wheel and the carrier will be at rest, owing to a pin 7 on one of the pawls bearing against stop 14:. As a 'magazine is fed into the space between the holding-arms a cits front edge will strike a bent releasing-finger d, which is connected with the switch-lever,and thus the said switchlever will be swung on its pivot 2. This will accomplish two things. The pawl which has been held arrested by the lug 13 of the switchlever will be allowed to fall into the path of the teeth of the wheel 10,and at the same time the stop 14 will be moved out of the path of the The carrier will now berotated by the engagement of the released pawl with the toothed wheel 10, and this engagement will continue until the pin on this pawl, riding upon the upwardly-inclined camsurface 9", will be released from the toothed wheel. Before this release takes place, however, the switch or controlling lever has been automatically returned by a suitable spring to the position shown in Fig. 1, with its stop 14: directly across the mouth of the catnway 9, and as the pawl which has just engaged the toothed wheel is lifted out of engagetnent therewith the pin on this pawl will strike the stop 14 and arrest the rotary movement of the carrier, and at the same time the next following pawl will have arrived in position,s0

' thatits pin will rest upon-the block 18 ready for the release of this pawl and its engagement with the toothed wheel when the next magazine is fed into the holding-arms corre- 69 and 70.

sponding thereto. It will be seen from the above that the carrier has a stepby-step rotary movement, and at each action a set of holding-arms will be presented to the bite of the rollers 20 and 28 to receive the magazine therefrom.

On the shaft 6 and outside of the drumhead 4 pinions 12 are arranged, said pinions being mutilated by having a space 12' equal to four teeth left blank. This space is designed to engage at times with a smooth track or locking-surface of a ring 11. This ring is provided at intervals with rack-teeth 12? and is fixed in relation to the rotary parts. I have shown three such racks located at difierent points on the inner edge of the ring, one set of teeth being beneath the feedrollers 8 and 9, which feed in the blank, another set of teeth being opposite the roller 28, and another setbeing between the rollers 68 and 69 and 70. By this construction it will be seen that the receiving and holding fingers between which the magazines are fed and also the holding-fingers at the paste-roll 68 rotate backwardly by reason of the pinions connected with these holders engaging with the teeth on the track or rim at these points, while the fingers which are below the blank feed-rolls 8 and 9 are turned outwardly into position to receive the next magazine. The teeth near the roll 28 are simply for the purpose of allowing the receiving and holding fingers with the magazine held thereby to clear the roll, for which purpose the pinion with the shaft 6 and the holding-arms carried thereby are rotated in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1. The rack-teeth opposite the rolls 8 and 9 are for the purpose of turning the holding-arm inwardly, so as to pass the said roller 9, and for then turning the arm outward in posit-ion for receiving the magazine. The position of the holder with the magazine in relation to the paste-roller when the carrier is at rest is shown in dotted lines in Fig.

1. It will be noticed from Fig. 1 that the direction of the arrow, and as this step movement is being completed the magazine will be presented to the bite of the delivery-rolls In this action the holding-arms in turning sweep across the upper periphery of the roll 70, and this causes the projecting flap of the wrapper to be turned over onto the paste-supplied part of the magazine, and the delivery-rolls now taking the magazine complete the folding down and pasting of the flap of the wrapper.

It will be seen that the-pinions 12 when not engaging the rack-teeth are locked by the segmental portion12 engaging the plain part of the inner edge of the ring 11.

Referring now to the label-pasting mechanism, which I have arranged to cooperate with the pasting mechanism for the magazinewrapper above referred to, it will be seen from as shown in Figs. 1 and 6 at 19, and it is arranged to take paste onto the peripheral portions 21 from the paste-roller 68, before menshown in Fig. 5.

tioned, and it delivers it onto the label-strip at intervals. The label bearing the address is comparatively small in relation to the magazine or other article, and the width of the label-stripis indicated in Fig. 9, this being in the same proportion as the figures of the drawings representing the mechanism. The length of the label-feeding rolls as compared withthe rolls for engaging the magazines is The paste-applying roll 18 isshortenthan the label-feeding rolls 16 and 17, thepurpose being to apply the paste not over the wholewidth of the label-strip, but, as shown in Fig. 9, to onlythat portion inclosed Within the imaginary dotted lines indicated in said figure. This will leave a margin of one-fourth inch along each edge of the 1abel-strip, and the paste-covered portions of t the strip will be separated by an uncoated transverse portion one-half inch in width, as at 22. This spacing between the coated surfaces results from the interrupted surface of the roller 18, before mentioned. It will be understood that the label-strip has been previously supplied with the desired addresses spaced apart properly and uniformly, and the diameter of the roller 18 is such that the paste will be applied to the label-strip at intervals are not puckered up, which puckering affects the accuracy of the feed, and the surface of the feed-roller is kept free from paste or ac,- cumulations thereof.

The detail construction of the feed-roller 17 is illustrated in Fig. 7, from which it will be seen that it is provided with three spaces 24, which overlie the label-strip when the pastecoated portions are passing through the feedrolls. At other times the knives 25, carried by the feed-rollers, engage the label-strip centrally of the intermediate plain or uncoated portions of the strip and perforate or par tially sever the same, so that the labels are partially severed from the strip, the companion feed-roller 16 being provided with grooves at 24 to act as the female part of the cutter or perforator. This roller has its periphery intact except where the grooves occur, and it forms the support upon which the labelstrip bears and between which and the rims or bearing portions of the feed-roll 17 the label-strip is gripped to be fed positively and accurately to the delivery-rollers.

- The train of rollers is driven from the rotary magazine-carrier at proper intervals by means of rack-teeth 26, formed on the rotating heads or frames 3 and 4, meshing with a pinion 27, there being a set of these rackteeth in advance of each pair of magazineholding arms, so that as a magazineafter receiving paste is being carried to be presented to the delivery-rolls the said rack-teeth 26 will rotate the pinion, and through gearing 29 3O 31 on the shafts of the rolls 17, 16, and 18, respectively, these rolls will be turned in the proper direction to present the label properly supplied with paste and almost severed from the strip to the rollers 69 70, and when the magazine is brought to the bite of these rollers the added thickness or the pressure of the magazine on the label will cause it to be torn from the strip and be applied to the magazine. Another advantage appears here, resulting from having a clean margin around the paste-coated surface, in that there is no liability of the paste being squeezed beyond the edge of the label and getting upon the surface of the rollers.

I do not Wish to limit myself strictly to the use in one machine of the wrapper-pastor and the label-pastor.

In Fig. 4 I show a modified form of the switch or controlling-lever, in which the lever is formed of a single arm. This has the supporting-surface 13 and also the stop let, combined therewith. These parts are thus arranged to act on the same pin 7 of one of the pawls.

The knives that sever the labels make a clean cut excepting at the margins, where the strip is perforated to be readily torn. The line of cut is indicated in Fig.

I claim as my invention 1. In combination, a carrier for magazines and the like comprising a step-by-step rotary part and means for giving the same step-bystep rotary movement in one direction, said means being rendered effective to rotate the carrierby the feeding of the magazine into said carrier, substantially as described.

2. In combination, a rotary carrier, a plurality of holding devices thereon for the magazines and means for giving said carrier a stepbyvstep rotary movement, said meansbeing 2 ating therefrom and pivotally connected with the carrier, a paste-roll, discharging rollers controlled automatically by the feeding of the magazines into engagement with the carrier, substantially as described.

3. In combination, a constantlyrotating part, a carrier adapted to rotate step by step in one direction and means for throwing the same automatically into and out of connection with the constantly-rotatin g part, said automatic means being controlled by the feeding of the magazines into their position on the carrier to be carried thereby, substantially as described.

4. In combination, a carrier, holders supported thereon to have a swinging movement, a paste-container, discharge-rolls and means for swinging said holders automatically in relation to. the paste-container and dischargerolls, substantially as described.

5. In combination with a stepby-step rotary carrier, a series of holding means radiand means for automatically swinging said holding means about their pivots, substantially as described.

6. In combination, a step-by-step rotary drum or carrier, a series of pawls thereon, a toothed wheel constantly rotating and arranged to be engaged by the pawls, a camway for controlling the position of the pawls and a controlling-lever with means for operating the same automatically as the magazines are fed into the machine, said lever controlling the position of the pawls in relation to the camway, substantially as described.

7. In combination with a movable carrier, means for driving the same, a pawl, a camway for controlling the position of the pawl in relation to the driving means and a switch controlled by feeding in of a magazine, said switch controlling the position of the pawl in relation to the camway, substantially as described.

8'. In combination, a rotary carrier, a constantly-rotating driving member, a pawl for connecting the two, a camway for controlling the position of the pawl in relation to the driving member and a switch and stop device, said switch serving to control the position of the pawl in relation to the camway and to stop said pawl when a one-step movement of the carrier hasbeen completed, substantially as described.

9. In combination with the rotary carrier, a pawl, a constantly-rotating toothed wheel to be engaged by the pawl, a camway to-control the position of the pawl and a switch-lever pivoted intermediate of its length to control the positibn of the pawl in relation to the camway, said switch-lever at one end having a supporting-lug for the pawl and having at its other end a stop for said pawl, substan- I tially as described.

10. In combination, a rotary carrier, a series of arms pivotally connected therewith, and means for controlling the position of said arms comprising a rim having teeth at intered to engage the teeth on the rim, substantially as described.

11. In combination, a carrier, holding means for the magazine movably connected therewith, a roll in the path of the outer end of the magazine and means for throwing the said holding means into difierent positions to pass the said roll, substantially as described.

12. In combination mechanism for pasting the Wrapper onto a magazine or the like, said mechanism including a pair of delivery-rollers, a label-pasting mechanism comprising.

means for applying paste to the label-strip, means for partially severing the labels from the said strip and for directing the same to the discharge-rollers whereby the added thick ness of the magazine in being discharged will separate the labels from the label-strip and press the label upon the magazine or wrapper, substantially as described.

13. In combination means for pasting a wrapper containing a magazine or the like, means for discharging the Wrapped magazine comprising'a pair of rolls between which the wrapped magazine passes and means for feeding the labels thereto to be applied to the magazine or wrapper by the pressure of said rolls as the magazine is being discharged, substantially as described.

14:. In combination with mechanism for pasting a wrapper containinga magazine including a pair of discharge-rollers and means for feeding the labels to the discharge-roller to be applied to the magazine or wrapper by the action of said discharge-roller.

15. In combination with a rotary carrier for the magazines, means for giving the same a step-by-step movement, means for applying labels to the magazines and means for operating the said label-applyin g means intermittingly from the rotary carrier, substantially as described.

16. In combination with rollers through which the magazines or the like are passed, means for applying paste to a sheet leaving its margins free, means for partially severing said sheet and means for feeding the same by its margins to the rollers to be attached to the magazine or the like, substantially as described.

17. In combination, a pair of discharge-rollers for the magazine, means for presenting the magazine thereto and means for directing the labels to the dischargerollers to be applied to the magazines as they are passing through the discharge-rollers, substantially as described.

18. In combination, a pair of discharge-rollers for the magazine, means for presenting the magazine thereto and means for directing the labels to the discharge-rollers to be applied to the magazines as they are passing through the discharge-rollers, said labels being severed from the label-strip by the con tact of and pressure resulting from the m agazine, substantially as described.

19. In combination, means foreflt'ecting the discharge of a magazine, and means for directing a label-strip thereto, the said labels being severed from the strip and applied to the magazine by the added thickness of the magazine in passing through the discharge means, substantially as described.

20. In combination, a carrier having a movable holder for the magazine, means for acting on the magazine, said means being located in and obstructing the path of the magazine as moved by the carrier, and means for moving the holder in relation to the carrier in order to pass the said obstructions, substantially as described. 7

21. In combination,a movable carrier with means for moving the same intermittingly, a paste-container and a holder on the carrier with means foroperating said holder tolift the magazine from the paste-container just before the carrier comes to rest, substantially as described.

22. In combination, a movable carrier, a.

holder a movement on the carrier, said movement being in a reverse direction opposite the delivery-rolls to cause the flap to be folded down, substantially as described.

23. In combination, a carrier having rotary step-by-step movement in one direction, a holder for the magazine carried thereby, means for applying paste to the magazine held by the said holder and in the forward movement of the carrier and holder, means for giving the holder a reverse movement in relation to the carrier with means for folding down the flap in said reverse movement, substantially as described.

24. In combination, a carrier, a holder for the magazine pivoted thereto, means for ap plying paste to the magazine, means for folding down the flap of the wrapper and means for swinging the holder in a direction opposite to that of the carrier to cause the magazine to contact with the flap-folding means,

substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES OWENS. Witnesses:

THEO. L. MONTAGUE, JOHN H. CANTRELL. 

